Legal claims defining the scope of protection, as filed with the USPTO.
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a server, data indicative of a user input for content; receiving, at the server, a location of a client device associated with the user input; selecting, by the server, a task to be performed by the client device in exchange for access to the content, wherein the task is related to the location of the client device; sending, from the server, the task to the client device; and sending, from the server, the content to the client device, wherein completion of the task allows the client device to provide the content.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the task includes machine incomprehensible instructions.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the task includes instructions to manipulate one or more sensors of the client device.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the one or more sensors include a positioning device or an accelerometer.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the content includes geographic data and the task includes instructions to sketch on the geographic data.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the task includes instructions to draw a line between two geographic features in the content.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the task includes instructions to describe a geographic feature selected based on the location of the client device.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the task includes a question to identify a building or a street at the location of the client device.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the task requests a spoken response through the client device.
10. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least: receive a geographic location of a client device and data indicative of a user request for content from the client device; select an instruction to be performed by the client device for access to the content, wherein the instruction is related to the geographic location of the client device; sending the instruction to the client device; and sending the content to the client device, wherein completion of the instruction allows the client device to provide the content.
11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the instruction includes a machine incomprehensible instruction.
12. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the instruction includes an instruction to manipulate one or more sensors of the client device.
13. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the one or more sensors include a positioning device or an accelerometer.
14. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the content includes geographic data and the task includes instructions to sketch on the geographic data.
15. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the instruction includes directions to draw a line between two geographic features in the content.
16. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the instruction includes directions to describe a geographic feature selected based on the location of the client device.
17. A method comprising: sending, from a client device, data indicative of a user input to request content to a content server; sending, from the client device, a location of the client device associated with the user input to the content server; receiving, at the client device, a task from the content server, wherein the task is a function of the location of the client device; and presenting the task on the client device, wherein the content is provided based on an attempted performance of the task on the client device being successful.
18. The method of claim 17 , further comprising: sending data indicative of the attempted performance of the task to the content server; and receiving the content from the content server in response to the attempted performance being successful.
19. The method of claim 17 , further comprising: receiving a second user input as the attempted performance in response to the task; determining whether the attempted performance is successful.
20. The method of claim 17 , wherein the content includes geographic data and the task includes instructions to sketch on the geographic data.
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May 31, 2016
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